During the cold season, the human body suffers from vitamin deficiency, in the winter season it is not easy to find fresh and tasty fruit, which would enrich the body with the necessary elements.
In this case, Kiwi can help: A tasty berry, which in addition to its unusual flavor has a large number of useful and necessary vitamins! But many people ask the question: how to eat them?
With or without skin? There are many questions that a person who sees this unique and “hairy” fruit for the first time. This article will inform you of all its advantages and disadvantages.
Chemical composition and calories
Product usefulness is determined by an analysis of its content. The analysis calculates macroelements and trace elements, vitamins and calories. A Kiwi contains many essential substances for the human body:
- Vitamin C, which provides 200% of the daily amount allowed per 100 grams of product.
- Vitamin B6 and vitamin B9 (folic acid, essential vitamin for pregnant women).
- Magnesium, phosphorus and potassium (one hundred grams of product contain 12%, 6. 3%and 4. 3%).
- Among the distinguished macronutrients the best indicators of molybdenum, copper and manganese (one hundred grams of Kiwi product can provide 14. 3%, 10% and 10% of the standard for one day).
Kiwi benefits for the human body
The Kiwi berry contains an incredible amount of important and useful elements that everyone needs.
- The Kiwi helps to reinforce the immune system, since the fruit is rich in vitamin C. consuming a kiwi, a person does not even realize how it enriches its immune system with a mass of useful elements. The regular consumption of the fruit protectsAgainst the flu and colds in the winter.
- This fruit is one of the favorites of those who try to lose weight. The kiwi is low in calories and can mitigate the feeling of hunger.
- Eliminates excess salts from the organism, which helps improve renal function. The absorption of fruit serves as a good preventive measure against the accumulation of renal calculations in the body.
- It allows to maintain normal blood sugar levels. Yes, consumption is recommended in case of diabetes, it will easily contribute to raising the sugar level. Such a berry will not harm!
- Kiwi contains enough folic acid to help you have a healthy child. This berry is always consumed before planning a baby. Kiwi contains essential elements that the future mother needs.
- The Kiwi also has the ability to cure wounds quickly.
- It can normalize blood pressure.
- Kiwi can normalize heartbeat.
- Frequent Kiwi consumption reduces the risk of cancer.
- Improves digestive function.
- GRINDING HAIR ENGINEMENT IN THE ELDERLY PEOPLE, if this product is present in your diet every day.
- Kiwis contain magnesium. If a person has cramps, nervous tics, pain, this fruit is a daily need.
- The berry has an excellent effect on the respiratory system, helps eliminate cough and rum, after its lon g-term use in food, the lack of breath may disappear.
- Doctors recommend two or three pieces a day for menopause.
How to choose a kiwi
Keep in mind that ripe fruit has a slightly noticeable smell, barely noticeable. If something weird smells, it means that it is spoiling.
Soft fruit means that it is too mature. Too hard means that it is not mature enough. Choose between the two; A kiwi must be firm, but no more than that. Pay attention to your appearance when buying it. You should not have inlays, spots or mold.
If the kiwi is spoiled, pressing the peduncle will come out the juice. If it is fresh, they should not be cleft in the fruit after pressing it with the finger. If the color of the bark has changed juicy to rotten, the fruit should not be taken, it is broken.
Is it necessary to peel a kiwi before eating it?
Many people have not even considered trying to eat a kiwi with skin. Only the lazy would diligently engulfed him without peeling. The answer is: Yes, you can! And you should do it.
Although the shell is not so tasty, it contains a series of important nutrients. The kiwi peel is as healthy as Kiwi himself. The properties contained in Kiwi are an antiseptic that prevents the formation of all types of bacteria in the digestive tract.
But we are talking about a special variety in which the fruit has no villi: the Kiwi variety.
How to process a kiwi before consuming it
It is healthier and sure to eat a kiwi when it has been stripped of all the microbes of the skin. Experts advise to rinse it twice with running water. The second time in warm water with a brush. With the brush, review the entire bark underwater.
Caution. During treatment, peel so that cracks or scratches are not formed in the cortex, since otherwise the harmful components will be transferred from the bark to the berry pulp.
Why do you have to treat them?
In addition to healthy vitamins and elements, unprocessed fruit can bring many unpleasant surprises. Nitrates enter the product because of the inappropriate use of fertilizers. In addition, earthworm eggs and other bacteria reach the product through manure and fruits and vegetables.
Decontaminate the cortex
As already said, two good washes of the fruit are enough to completely clean the bark of unwanted components. But if you think a washing is not enough, you can leave the kiwi soak for about five hours in running water, so you will make all harmful bacteria disappear.
Get rid of kiwi hair
Getting rid of them is easier than you think, you just have to do it:
- Make an incision near the peduncle of the fruit;
- put the kiwi under a jet of running water;
- While you wash it, rub with the hard part of the sponge until the fluff begins to detach;
- Rinse the remains of Pelusa under the water jet.
Another option is to remove the fluff with the other side of a knife, a towel or a brush.
Soften the skins
Not everyone likes to chew hard skins and unpleasant flavor that can barely chew. To soften the skins, it can immerse the kiwi or pieces of it in mineral water for about three hours. This will soften the skin of exotic fruit and will not irritate your mouth.
The way of eating a peeled kiwi.
- It is eaten in the same way as other fruits and vegetables. Bite in pieces and chew; Divide it in halves.
- Cut the fruit in half and use a teaspoon to get the pulp, this method is better because it creates a kind of glass that prevents juice from escaping when eating the pulp.
Then you can eat the pulp with the juice.
Useful recipes
With kefir
Such a recipe will undoubtedly like thin people, since it is not only tasty, but also dietary. Such a dessert is adequate as breakfast, snack or fast snack. Ingredients:
- Kefir – a glass;
- Kiwi – 2-3 pieces;
- Salvado: 2 teaspoons
- Sugar: 2 teaspoons.
Preparation: Remove the kiwi skin and crush the pulp into small pieces. Put approximately one third of the Kiwi pulp at the bottom of a deep vessel. Next, put half of the kefir (alternate with the cheese cake mixture). Sprinkle everything with sugar. Add the bran on top and repeat the procedure (put the kiwi again in a single layer, the kefir again).
With celery
Ingredients:
- 2 celery stems
- a kiwi;
- an Apple;
- a bunch of vegetables;
- a teaspoon of honey;
- 150 ml of water, if possible mineral.
Preparation:
Rinse the celery stems under the water jet, cut them into pieces and put them in the blender. Rinse the parsley and chop it finely. Add some water to the blender and beat. Rinse and cut the apple in dice and put it in the blender. Peel and pique the kiwi. Add honey or other sweetener and bat.
Smoothie
Ingredients:
- 2 kiwis;
- a couple of teaspoons of honey;
- Half glass of low fat in fat.
Preparation:
Peel the skin of the fruit and cut it into pieces. Put everything in the blender, add honey and add the kefir. Liquefare until a homogeneous consistency. They are quite simple but very useful recipes that everyone should try.
Damage and possible contraindications of use
In addition to the fact that this fruit is useful, before starting to use such a berry, you must become familiar with the contraindications:
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Allergenic product. Such product contains enough substances that can cause allergies. The sensations will be such, as if you chew sandpaper, there will be burning, inflammation of the mouth.
Note that the probability that you are allergic to Kiwi will increase significantly if you have had allergic reactions prior to avocado or latex.
Kiwi conservation peculiarities
The conservation time, if all the rules are correctly followed, is about two months. Sometimes it can exceed four months, if the Kiwi has been well preserved. The temperature must be maintained around zero and not below zero.
If the fruit is going to be preserved for a shorter period, it can be stored at temperatures between +10 and +15 degrees, so that the fruit will be kept between 3 and 6 weeks. The fruit should not be stored at different temperatures: it should not move from one place to another, from the refrigerator to the table, etc., since this will shorten the life of the fruit.
The fruit should not be washed before putting it in the refrigerator. If washed, the fruit will rot quickly. Avoid placing kiwis with other foods that give off a noticeable smell, since the fruit will absorb the smells. You can place the kiwis in the refrigerator, but it is important that you do not put anything on top of the kiwis, otherwise the fruit will be broken.
If you follow all the rules and respect the contraindications, you will have a very positive experience with the Kiwis. However, it is important to be thorough to avoid health problems in the future.
